Woods Bison

Germany

American Bison in Germany   Germany Bison Association Wilderness Society Bison Association in Germany https://bison-zuchtverband.chayns.net/ticker?v=0 German bison breeders: These are wild animals, not cattle Directly from the dpa news channel Aug 30, 2020 Heeslingen/Osnabrück (dpa/lni) – The bison breeders in Germany are demanding a legal classification of their horned cattle as wild animals. “We as an association want bison to be classified as wild animals again,” said association chairman Hans-Jürgen Schröder in Osnabrück to the German Press Agency. So far, bison have been considered cattle, which means that there are corresponding requirements for disease protection. Yearly blood tests for brucellosis, leukemia and other … Read more

Canada History

Pages: 1 2 Henry Kellsey, a factor of the Hudson Bay Company, in a report of his explorations in the far west of Canada, in 1691, tells of his party sighting buffalo in large numbers. A few years later this explorer became the first white buffalo hunter on the plains of western Canada. He tells that everywhere the Indians were slaughtering, taking only the choice pieces and leaving the greater portion of each slain body to the wolves which followed in large bands. The Saturday News May 21, 1914    In 1786 statistics show that over 705,000 skins were exported from Québec … Read more

Wood Bison

Most all Wood Bison are in Canada  (Bison bison athabascae)    The skeleton of Charlie the Wood Bison, discovered in 1973 along the Glenmore Reservoir, has been relocated to the Royal Alberta Museum. Ryan White –CTVNewsCalgary.ca Senior Digital Journalist/Producer Decades after being discovered by a 12-year-old boy along the banks of the Glenmore Reservoir, the remains of ‘Charlie the Bison’ have made their way to the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton. The nearly complete, 4,600-year-old bison skeleton has been a fixture of the Sunlife Plaza atrium in downtown Calgary for years following its excavation by 12-year-old Nicholas Jones and his … Read more